Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
Gabrielle Zevin
On what was otherwise a very ordinary day, Naomi lost a coin flip, and had to go back to get the yearbook crew's brand new camera. Or at least that is what she was later told when she woke up in the ambulance. But she has no memory of this. No memory of the fall. No memory of the handsome boy in the ambulance claiming to be her boyfriend. No memory of the tennis jock who actually is her boyfriend. No memories at all of her entire high school career. She has forgotten that her parents have divorced, that her and her dad have moved, and some other very important things. She doesn't even remember how to drive. So now what? The doctors can't promise her memories will ever come back, and tell her to live her life without them. But how do you just live your life, when you don't recognize the face in the mirror as your own? When you can't figure out why you might have dated who you did, or whatever drew you to the activities that seem to suck up all your free time. What then?
A lovely book about the nature of memories, love, friendship, and finding one's self when all you seem to have to go by are random clues that don't always add up. Strongly recommended for grades 8-12.